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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by …
What an absolute delight. I haven't read this in a decade and didn't realize how thematically in line with Jeeves and Wooster it is
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …
When he is speaking to you or singing opposite you, look down as you respond to him, so that you do not by gazing at his face take the seed of desire from the enemy sower and bring forth the harvest of corruption and loss.
— Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell (Page 160)
This is so weirdly tender and heartfelt for a lecture on how to be a good monk (from St. Basil's writing on monastic ideals in the late middle ages)
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …
Briefly put, the thesis of this trend in scholarship is that Lot was violating the custom of Sodom (where he was himself not a citizen but only a "sojourner") by entertaining unknown guests within the city walls at night without obtaining the permission of the elders of the city. When the men of Sodom gathered around to demand that the strangers be brought out to them, "that they might know them," they meant no more than to "know" who they were, and the city was consequently destroyed not for sexual immorality but for the sin of inhospitality to strangers.
— Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell (Page 93 - 94)
@j6m8 there weren't any big differences in how I felt reading it, although I'm a much more critical reader on a second time through (with any book) so I feel the negatives a bit more acutely. I do think I followed the details of the plot better, which was enjoyable
In order to survive the kind of hypocrisy sometimes displayed by otherwise tolerant people when faced with the subject of …
For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as …
I didn’t think this book was as strong as the start of the series; it got a little… whimsical? and some of the character dynamics didn’t make a ton of sense to me, but I still was very happy to revisit this
For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq.
Then a search of …
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, …
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, …
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …
I've been on a bit of a re-reading kick and this was so fun to revisit
Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide. As she struggles through the miles-long …
@wynkenhimself I had the same reaction! It felt so gross to have the end justify the abuse, it really ruined the book for me
The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe – the ambrosial to the malodorous, …
We usually describe the smell [of blood] as "metallic" because it's similar to the smell left on our fingers when we handle coins, or in the air when we scrub a bare metal pan or sink. ... Our hominid ancestors would have known that molecule [epoxy decenal] and smell long before they paid much attention to rocks and ores, so for much of our prehistory, they may well have experienced metals as bloody-smelling.
— Nose Dive by Harold McGee (Page 502 - 503)
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
